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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Steven Lloyd Peters.

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STEVEN LLOYD PETERS

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

December 12, 1947 – March 10, 1970

Service record

Steven Lloyd Peters, of Klamath Falls, Oregon, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 10, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 13W, Line 105 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 13W · Line 105

Position of Panel 13W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Tactical Wire Operations Specialist (36K)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
December 12, 1947
Home of record
Klamath Falls, Oregon (Klamath County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 10, 1970
Age
22
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

38 names on the Wall carry the date March 10, 1970; ten of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1970, 625 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 77 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 13W, Line 105

Same unit, same day

From Klamath Falls

All 14 names from Klamath Falls →

Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.